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| Thread ID: 123572 | 2012-03-04 19:07:00 | What a RORT | B.M. (505) | PC World Chat |
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| 1262946 | 2012-03-04 21:40:00 | Telecom XT phones use overseas sims - what do you mean?He means if you have a Telecom CDMA phone (i.e. a phone on the network that they're shutting down this year anyway). XT phones will have no issue with overseas SIM cards; as long as the correct network frequencies are supported you'll be fine. |
Erayd (23) | ||
| 1262947 | 2012-03-04 23:15:00 | What a dickhead, expecting to pay the same in the Cook Islands as here for mobile data, using his NZ SIM card! Make him pay it all, I say! There has been plenty of media coverage in the last few years about the dangers of data roaming when overseas. I turn off all data consuming services, and/or buy a local SIM card (depending on how long I'm there for). What an incompetent idiot! I think that is an assumption itself - perhaps one, with the benefit of hindsight, he should not have made... Data roaming charges are ridiculously overpriced for all carriers (not just Telecom), and there is plenty of room to reduce these to a more acceptable level. Quite correct johcar. As others have said there has been enough media coverage of the topic so he deserves the bill for being thick. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 1262948 | 2012-03-04 23:54:00 | What a Douche! +1 Johcar | Gobe1 (6290) | ||
| 1262949 | 2012-03-05 01:54:00 | Yeah I saw that this morning and commented before I went to work: This is news? Another person who's smart enough to have a smartphone, but not smart enough to check roaming charges? ...There's a reason why roaming data comes *disabled* on both iPhones, iPads, and all Android devices by default, but clearly this person was smarter than his smartphone and knew better. His own damn fault... |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1262950 | 2012-03-05 04:46:00 | Well in my book just because a person is naïve doesn’t excuse anyone for exploiting them. Charging $30 a meg for data is plain highway robbery. The Nigerian Scammers still do well despite all the warnings about them, but that doesn’t excuse them either. |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 1262951 | 2012-03-05 04:50:00 | @ B.M. Your book seems different to other books though!! | Snorkbox (15764) | ||
| 1262952 | 2012-03-05 05:09:00 | Yeah no most phones I know of have Roaming switched off by default. In fact, I know that on Android you get nice big warnings about it... EDIT: I'm even nice enough to include a Screenshot: 3624 But we can presume the user is smarter than the smartphone, knew best, and ignored it. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1262953 | 2012-03-05 05:43:00 | Magnus O'Neill falls into the same category as people who fall for Nigerian scammers: people who have insufficient intelligence to be allowed out in public. It is a well-known fact that using your phone overseas with a NZ SIM card will cost a lot of money. The fact that the telcos (all of them, not just Telecom!) charge these exorbitant fees is a separate issue. |
johcar (6283) | ||
| 1262954 | 2012-03-05 06:54:00 | Yeah no most phones I know of have Roaming switched off by default. In fact, I know that on Android you get nice big warnings about it... EDIT: I'm even nice enough to include a Screenshot: 3624 But we can presume the user is smarter than the smartphone, knew best, and ignored it. Seeing a warning like that he is even dumber than I thought. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 1262955 | 2012-03-05 08:26:00 | Telecom even sent him a txt warning him he had spent $1000, and he continued using roaming data. Telecom are refunding the first $1000. | Greven (91) | ||
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